A recent poll (actually a combination of polls, each paid for by a different candidate) shows that Kathleen Curry is leading in her race to be re-elected to the Colorado State House of Representatives, district 61. Curry is at 43%; Democratic nominee Roger Wilson is at 34%; Republican nominee Luke Korkowski is at 22%.
Curry is an independent candidate who has been forced to be a write-in candidate, because of a Colorado election law that has been repealed effective 2011. The old law says no one can be on the ballot as an independent candidate if that person had been a member of a qualified political party during the year before filing. Curry left the Democratic Party in December 2009 and became an independent.
If Curry wins, she will be the first person elected by write-ins at the general election to a state legislative seat since 2006, when a write-in candidate was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
I sure hope that the GOP wins something in Colorado – what a messy state!
Go Curry !!!
Integrity counts for something after all.
Richard, do you know the methodology of the polls? Polling write-ins is tricky- asking voters if they support the candidate can inflate their support, as at the ballot box nobody prompts them that Curry is running.
Who the pollsters are is also significant, although combining the results may help correct for some of that.